15 Nov
2008
15 Nov
'08
8:55 p.m.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 02:22:16AM +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote:
Right. The driver or the hardware itself can do this
transition
automatically when it's required. The control panel will reflect this
change in way or another.
The problem is that this also happens when it's not
required, and that the change is permanent.
Just imagine: someone at the other end of the building,
or at the other end of Parma, accidentally disconnects
the MADI signal I'm receiving from him for a second.
The driver / card switches to its internal clock and
does not switch back when the signal is restored. So
it is now permanently misconfigured. And before you
say I'm dreaming: we *do* have optical links running
all over the town, they *can* carry a MADI signal and
they *will* be used to do that.
Do you really expect me or someone else to sit watching
your control panel all day ? Do you have another solution
than an application watching the state of the card, and
restoring it when necessary ?
Why should any audio application be different?
I have already told you twice before, and a third time
above. So I'm not going to repeat this again. If you
don't want to understand, which seems to be the case,
I'm wasting my time. I *do* understand your arguments,
but they just don't apply in this case - I'm not writing
a desktop MP3 player.
Ciao,
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FA
Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica
Parma, Italia
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